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Hitchcock
I bet this has been done.
I wonder, despite personal feelings, whether for sheer number of singularly great films he isn't the best director who ever lived.
Pick your favourites, defend against other worthy contestants.
I wonder, despite personal feelings, whether for sheer number of singularly great films he isn't the best director who ever lived.
Pick your favourites, defend against other worthy contestants.
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Indeed, what is point?
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Re: Hitchcock
Women have terrible IT skills... SOMEHOW I've managed to fix it.
Diamond Dog wrote:nev gash wrote:What is point?
Indeed, what is point?
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Re: Hitchcock
K wrote:5 is not enough.
Regular BCB standards aside... we have to show SOME discernment of good taste.
Diamond Dog wrote:nev gash wrote:What is point?
Indeed, what is point?
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Re: Hitchcock
39 Steps (stylish and confident)
Rebecca (a feminist film made by people fighting the notion that that's what they were doing tooth and nail)
Strangers on a Train (tautest thriller and most charming villain)
Rear Window (Psychological thriller of the first order)
Vertigo (quirky, obsessive, downright weird)
Rebecca (a feminist film made by people fighting the notion that that's what they were doing tooth and nail)
Strangers on a Train (tautest thriller and most charming villain)
Rear Window (Psychological thriller of the first order)
Vertigo (quirky, obsessive, downright weird)
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Re: Hitchcock
My choices and I would Love, and hope to write something about them all
39 steps
Sabotage
Rear Window
The Trouble with Harry
North By Northwest
In short, though
39 Steps:
It was the first Hitchcock film I remember watching and being floored by. For a reason that befuddles me now, I decided to put it on after inviting some girls around to my house for a sleep over. They were "cool" girls too. They thought it was hilariously outdated. I admit I laughed when he runs through the highlands double speed with the silly looking constables chasing after him. But the scene where the Baddie shows his little pinky actually made me GASP. Robert Donat is just so lovely. His "Hitchcock" Blond is frustrating but also empathetic. I love the 1930's drama which has enough suspense it doesn't need realism. I haven't read the book, but having seen this film practically a billion times (3 times in the same week I first saw it) I still don't 100% get the story of the femme fatale spy in the beginning... but she IS so dramatic and classy! i don't think it could be remade better, as it uses all the 1930's charm to it's full advantage.
Sabotage
The most chilling film I think I've seen. In this age of ever-present terrorism threat I often think of this film. I still think it's unbelievably gut-wrenching. There are so many angles to it. The character of the cinema owner is a really deep and tragic one. I think it's the most under-rated.
Rear Window
Better every time I see it. It's actually ingenious.
From it's colours, it's characters and it's very real handling of real relationship issues... it has to be one of the best films ever made.
I saw it on the big screen and was the best cinema experience of my life.
The Trouble With Harry
I have too much to say about this film. I keep watching it to try and understand it. Until going through it's filmography I didn't realise how early it was. Imagine Being Hitchcock and deciding to completely invert your whole formula. Instead of making a full length feature film dramatising the threat that someone MAY get killed... kill a guy in the beginning and let the rest of the film be about how nobody really gives a damn.
North By Northwest
"The Man who Sneezed in Lincoln's Nose" enough said.
39 steps
Sabotage
Rear Window
The Trouble with Harry
North By Northwest
In short, though
39 Steps:
It was the first Hitchcock film I remember watching and being floored by. For a reason that befuddles me now, I decided to put it on after inviting some girls around to my house for a sleep over. They were "cool" girls too. They thought it was hilariously outdated. I admit I laughed when he runs through the highlands double speed with the silly looking constables chasing after him. But the scene where the Baddie shows his little pinky actually made me GASP. Robert Donat is just so lovely. His "Hitchcock" Blond is frustrating but also empathetic. I love the 1930's drama which has enough suspense it doesn't need realism. I haven't read the book, but having seen this film practically a billion times (3 times in the same week I first saw it) I still don't 100% get the story of the femme fatale spy in the beginning... but she IS so dramatic and classy! i don't think it could be remade better, as it uses all the 1930's charm to it's full advantage.
Sabotage
The most chilling film I think I've seen. In this age of ever-present terrorism threat I often think of this film. I still think it's unbelievably gut-wrenching. There are so many angles to it. The character of the cinema owner is a really deep and tragic one. I think it's the most under-rated.
Rear Window
Better every time I see it. It's actually ingenious.
From it's colours, it's characters and it's very real handling of real relationship issues... it has to be one of the best films ever made.
I saw it on the big screen and was the best cinema experience of my life.
The Trouble With Harry
I have too much to say about this film. I keep watching it to try and understand it. Until going through it's filmography I didn't realise how early it was. Imagine Being Hitchcock and deciding to completely invert your whole formula. Instead of making a full length feature film dramatising the threat that someone MAY get killed... kill a guy in the beginning and let the rest of the film be about how nobody really gives a damn.
North By Northwest
"The Man who Sneezed in Lincoln's Nose" enough said.
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Re: Hitchcock
Vertigo
Psycho
Notorious
Shadow of a Doubt
Rebecca
Psycho
Notorious
Shadow of a Doubt
Rebecca
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Love Hitchcock, watched Torn Curtain last week, loved it.
Top 5
39 Steps
Shadow of A Doubt
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Psycho.
Every one of his films has special moments.
Top 5
39 Steps
Shadow of A Doubt
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Psycho.
Every one of his films has special moments.
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Pained me to leave "North by Northwest" off. It's my number 6, and on a good day could replace any of the 5 above it.
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Vertigo
Psycho
Strangers On a Train
Spellbound
Shadow Of a Doubt.
I obviously like dark Hitch!
Psycho
Strangers On a Train
Spellbound
Shadow Of a Doubt.
I obviously like dark Hitch!
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The Modernist wrote:Vertigo
Psycho
Strangers On a Train
Spellbound
Shadow Of a Doubt.
I obviously like dark Hitch!
Spellbound is a bit of an off-kilter pick!
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Actually it's one I need to rewatch. I just remember the impact it made on me as a teenager, I was fascinated with the way it merged dreams with reality.
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I think it's pretty clunky. It relies on a kind of false Freudian notion that identifying trauma is the same as healing it. The characterizations are a bit stock too. Then there's the strangeness of the Dali imagery in the dream sequences. It doesn't really work, but it's beautiful.
All of this said, I completely get it leaving a strong impression. It haunted me for years too. So despite my criticisms, I actually get why you might rate it really highly.
All of this said, I completely get it leaving a strong impression. It haunted me for years too. So despite my criticisms, I actually get why you might rate it really highly.
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Strangers on a Train
Rear Window
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
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So many brilliant films, but I consider Vertigo his absolute masterpiece. I'd closely follow that film with Rear Window, Psycho, Strangers On a Train, and Rope.
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Davey the Fat Boy wrote:I think it's pretty clunky. It relies on a kind of false Freudian notion that identifying trauma is the same as healing it.
Hitch used the same notion later on in Marnie.
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I need to re-watch a lot of these, and there are a few I've never seen. But I'll go with:
Rebecca
Shadow Of A Doubt
Strangers On A Train
Rear Window
North By Northwest
Rebecca
Shadow Of A Doubt
Strangers On A Train
Rear Window
North By Northwest
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I rather like Marnie for some reason.
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joels344 wrote:So many brilliant films, but I consider Vertigo his absolute masterpiece. I'd closely follow that film with Rear Window, Psycho, Strangers On a Train, and Rope.
Remarkably, exactly the same five as I chose, except I would put Rear Window first. I'd love to write more – in fact I have written whole magazines about Rope, Rear Window and Vertigo – but a busy weekend ahead.
and yes, he probably is my favourite director, Englsih language certainly
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toomanyhatz wrote:Pained me to leave "North by Northwest" off. It's my number 6, and on a good day could replace any of the 5 above it.
Same here
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